Great, It's the Pervy Neighbor. We're Doomed

Chapter 685: Eyewitness - Zeng Yan

"No! No! Don't kill me! Let me go! I swear I won't call the police!!!!"Sun Jiankang kept pleading desperately to Lei Xiaoman, who had her back to him.

"Xiaoman! Look at me! Even if I cheated, that thing's already been cut off—I've atoned for my sins! I don't deserve to die!!!"

Lei Xiaoman still didn't turn around.

Zhang Yao gripped the dagger tightly, aiming it at Sun Jiankang's throat: "Don't worry, one stab and you'll be dead. A little bit of pain, and then you'll be comfortable forever."

Sun Jiankang continued to beg and plead, not just to Lei Xiaoman but to Zhang Yao before him.

But Zhang Yao still drove the dagger through Sun Jiankang's throat without a hint of mercy.

As the red liquid flowed out, it marked the gradual drain of life from this male college student, Zhang Yao's victim...

In the live stream room.

Ultimate Rich Kid: [Honestly, cases like Lei Xiaoman's extreme revenge after finding out her partner cheated—those aren't exactly common in real life, are they?]

Middle-aged Uncle: [Who knows? It's not like every single case gets reported on the news.]

Fairy Sister: [Better if there are fewer of these types. Too extreme. I'm scared of running into someone like that who's thinking mutual destruction.]

Little Aunt: [This Zhang Yao, from the very beginning, what's his real purpose in helping Lei Xiaoman like this? Is he eyeing her as his prey?]

Domineering Female CEO: [Close. But not to kill Lei Xiaoman.]

[Based on the info the live stream provided, plus what I have on him,]

[In simple terms, this guy can't get enough of women.]

Middle-aged Uncle: [So, him helping Lei Xiaoman this much—he actually wants to get her?]

[Lei Xiaoman's not that good-looking, is she? Is it worth it?]

Evil Wolf: [Can't say it like that. Zhang Yao and the others can't leave. Either they call prostitutes, or they target the women in the apartment building. Or if you're bold enough, you catfish a few over the internet.]

[So, Lei Xiaoman, even if she's average-looking, she's young at least. Something is better than nothing.]

Ultimate Rich Kid: [But this round—it's already day 3.]

[Only one lab rat dead out of seven, Li Shumu. This round is way too slow, isn't it?]

[The previous rounds I watched, the first day or two would already have a few dead. Occasionally one or two would survive a bit longer.]

Domineering Female CEO: [By the time Jiang Ran came to Alice Apartment, it was already the 25th round. Who knows how many old residents were inside.]

[The result? In the rounds he's been through, he's killed god knows how many old residents. The newcomers haven't even had time to adapt to life at Alice Apartment—why would they be in a hurry to hunt lab rats?]

Ultimate Rich Kid: [So, basically, these lab rats showing up now all have Jiang Ran to thank?]

Inside Room 601.

Zhang Yao told Lei Xiaoman to clean up the bloodstains and other traces in the room.

He himself skillfully stuffed Sun Jiankang's corpse into a large suitcase.

Then, dragging the suitcase behind him, he threw it into the big trash bin downstairs.

But when he dumped the suitcase, he didn't expect one thing.

It was already four or five in the afternoon when he went downstairs.

And coincidentally, at that exact time, Zeng Yan, the lab rat whose girlfriend had cuckolded him, had just gotten off his early shift at the garment factory.

Talk about fate.

Zeng Yan worked at a garment factory in Nancheng City.

Jiang Ran's ex-girlfriend, Shen Xing—her dead boyfriend, Zhou Wu's family's textile factory, was also in Nancheng City.

Because of the industry connection, the two factories had always been business partners.

But ever since Zhou Wu's father died—though everyone thought he was missing—

The head of that textile factory was gone, and the factory temporarily fell into chaos. Eventually, a shareholder from the board took over as the temporary leader.

Then, that shareholder's son, a guy named Qi Shen, also went missing.

Qi Shen—he'd also died in Alice Apartment.

Back in that whole mess with Chen Fei, Wang Jian, and the new-generation Jack the Ripper.

That shareholder didn't have the heart to keep running the factory anymore; he was too busy searching for his son.

Because of that, ever since then, that factory had slowly started to decline.

And it affected this garment factory too.

On top of that, in recent years, foreign trade and domestic sales had been tough—business wasn't easy.

The factory didn't have much work.

So Zeng Yan getting off his early shift was perfectly normal.

Zeng Yan rode his electric bike back to the apartment, and just happened to see Zhang Yao coming out of Building No. 2, dumping a suitcase.

He thought Zhang Yao was being really wasteful. That suitcase looked brand new—why the hell would you throw it away?!

So after parking his electric bike, Zeng Yan went over to the trash bin area near Building No. 2.

He opened the big bin and saw the brand-new suitcase inside.

"Might as well pull it out and sell it online."

Then he tipped the big bin over.

He dragged the large white suitcase out.

When he pulled it out, he realized the suitcase was ridiculously heavy.

So he opened it to see what was inside.

And then—something he never in a million years expected.

There was a person stuffed inside!!!! And not just any person—a dead body covered in blood!!!

Even though Zeng Yan was a man, he couldn't help but scream in terror.

His scream drew the attention of a few nearby cleaning aunties, as well as Building No. 2 Manager Wu Meiling.

The few of them looked very calm when they saw it, but they still put on a show of panic in front of Zeng Yan.

After that, the panicked group asked Zeng Yan what they should do.

Zeng Yan naturally said to call the police.

Soon, the police arrived.

Once there, they went through a series of procedures.

Including questioning the person who discovered the body.

Zeng Yan naturally spilled everything he'd seen.

But he didn't recognize Zhang Yao, the one who dumped the body—he could only describe his clothes and roughly what he looked like.

So, based on that, the police asked Manager Wu Meiling if there was someone like that in the building.

As the manager, Manager Wu Meiling naturally had to follow one of the manager's rules.

She definitely answered that there was no such resident.

But according to Zeng Yan, after dumping the suitcase with the body, that person had gone back into Building No. 2.

So the police went inside briefly, pretended to search around a bit.

Then they called it quits.

Back in the live stream room.

Middle-aged Uncle: [In the "Far Neighbor" survival game, from the earlier rounds, sometimes when the lab rats called the police, real cops would show up. Now, when the lab rats call, all that comes are fakes.]

Alice Apartment.

After the police left.

Downstairs at Building No. 2, Manager Wu Meiling, the few cleaning aunties, and the onlookers all dispersed.

Only Zeng Yan remained standing there, a bit lost.

Looks like being so excited to open that suitcase, only to find a corpse, really freaked him out.

"What the hell is going on here? Dumping bodies in the trash?!"

Zeng Yan looked up at the towering apartment building and swallowed instinctively.

Suddenly, he remembered the criminal psychologist from the welcome party a few days ago—Li Shumu.

Li Shumu had said he came here to find the deranged criminals, the deranged serial killers, and people like that hidden in the apartment.

Zeng Yan hadn't thought much of it back then, but now he felt that what Li Shumu said—that there were people like that here—might actually be true.

"So, getting ten thousand a day for living here—is this the reason too? There are murdering psychos here?"